Bailout and Popular Culture (2)

Earlier this week I posted a video essay (Bailout and Poular Culture) about how citizens view the bailout in humor and mostly song. The video essay contained links to Youtube videos. All were good, some were very very good. One thing they all have in common is that they are honest expresssions of how disagreement and disgust with what has happened to the country and the government response.

I took another trip to YouTube and found some more. These are entertaining as well as sobering. First, the headliners: four songs and three skits/commentaries. Then, the others.

I thought you and your readers might be amused that my “AIG Against the World” video, an excerpt of the above “AIG Lehman Parody Medley,” got a very brief but very nice mention on CNN. It’s only five seconds of air time, but it’s my CNN debut, and they even spelled my name right! 🙂

Here’s the link to Jeanne Moos’ CNN report (shown throughout that day on shows like CNN’s Situation Room, American Morning, Anderson Cooper 360, among others); the report led with the hook from “AIG Against The World” with my name even printed at the top of the TV screen.

(NOTE: There’s a short commercial first, before the actual CNN report.)

Also, just in time for the hearing last Wednesday of AIG’s CEO Edward Liddy before Congress, we had put up another slightly updated “excerpt single” from the parody medley, this time the parody of the 1970’s hit “Ain’t No Way to Treat A Lady,” called “Ain’t No Way to Treat Ed Liddy.”

And lastly, this may be a little obscure, but please go with me on this: In another entry on your blog, you discuss the FISH (First In Still Here) method of inventory. Coincidentally, the only non-finance parody I’ve put on youtube since starting doing this last november happened to be on the subject of FISH, though it deals not with LIFO inventory, but with the Broadway FISH scandal, when actor Jeremy Piven left the Broadway show Speed-the-Plow claiming illness due to having consumed too much fish. Even inventory-loving non-theater-a-fish-ianados might enjoy a lot of the fish jokes.